[bruin66]

They would demand to know if Ike had an “exit strategy” or worry that our response was “disproportionate”. Thousands died on D-Day, but today’s media reports on every death in Iraq or Afghanistan.

[ealgeone]

The Falaise Pocket where we had basically surrounded the Germans in a kill box would have been portrayed as "overkill".

But as Patton noted...make the other guy die for his country.